“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are merely the smallest element of language capable of containing meaning in isolation, and as such could never directly produce the 4000 Newtons of force per square centimeter required to break bones.” - Michael Stevens

Wwwwwhhaaaaaaoooooooooo! FRIGGIN GOALZ!!
Klapkut, you're aRt IS FRIGGIN AMAZING!! May I just call you Art-sempai?! Lol. XD But seriously, your artwork is beautiful and amazing. I just can't stop looking at all the detail and shading and-and- Awwe! It's so good! I bet it took you along time to finish these? Did you use Photoshop to create them, or something else??

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." -Leonardo Da Vinci

Omg, thank you so much : D
The time they take varies. Portraits are really my comfortzone, and because of that I've become relatively quick with those. A large portrait with simple shading will take around six hours or so, very doable in one day. But the Shadowmere one was quite different from what I'm used to, so there was way more trial and error involved in that one.
I work in Photoshop, yes. I use a few downloaded brushes, but the standard ones a lot as well, especially for soft blending.